Article holding and display container



April 11, 1950 s. H. DAVIS ARTICLE HOLDING AND DISPLAY CONTAINER FiledJuly 2, 1949 INVENTOR Jfan/eg ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 11 1950 U STATPATENT OFFICE 2.503379 g t Y V ARTICLE HOLDING AND nisPLA Y CONTAINERStanley 1H. Dav-is, Toledo, Ohio, assignor to The S. H. Dav-is Paper soaCompany, Toledo, Ohio,

a corporation of Ohio Application July 2, 1949, Serial 'No. 102,841

3 This invention relates particularly to containers for holding crayonsand color car-d sets used by school children.

' "The primary object of the invention the provision of a container ofthis character the tion of the body member when the cover has beenpartially removed.

. Other objects and advantages of theinventien will be apparent from thefollowing detailed description and from the accompanying drawingsforming a part thereof and illustrating one embodiment of the invention,in which Fig: 1 is a perspective view of the container body and itscover with the latter entirely removed; Fig. 2 is a similar fragmentaryview with the cover only partially removed and its top portion swungover to expose the upper open end of the body member; Fig. 3 is asection on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; F g. 4 is a fragmentary section onthe line 4 in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 in Fig. 1, andFig. 6 is a plan of a blank from which the body member of the containeris made.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the body member of the containerand 2 the cover member which telescopes thereover. The body I is ofrectangular form and thin from front to back with one edge, which is thetop edge, when in vertical usable position, open and with its remainingend and bottom edges closed. The bottom member is divided by a partition3 into a rear open-top compartment 4 for receiving color cards or thelike, and a front compartment 5 for holding a row of crayons 6, asshown. A central top portion of the front side of the body member isopen or cut away, as shown at l, to expose the upper end portion of therow of crayons, andthe compartment 5 may be conveniently made of alength to suit the number of crayons to be used, as hereinafterdescribed. The open top edge of the body member is preferably formed onan upwardly and rearwardly extending incline, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

One feature of the invention consists in forming the body member I in asimple, efficient and economical manner from a single-piece blank.

.2 Claims. (Cl. '229-20) This blank is shown in flat form in Fig. 6 andincludes the front panel H! and rear panel H connected at their inner oradjacent edges by an end section 12 along suitable fold lines IS. Therear panel H is connected at its opposite end to the partition panel Mby an end section 1 5, which, in the present instance, is substantiallyone-half the width of the "opposite end section 42 and connects to thepanel 15 by suitable fold lines #6. The front panel 10 has foldingconnection at its outer end with an end flap H which is substantiallythewidth of the end section l2, while the partition panel l4 has fol-d line"connection with a flap l8 that is substantially onehalf the-width offlap PI. 'The rearpanel H is slightly greater "in depth or verticalheight than the panels M and Ill and the upper ends or the end sections42 and it and of the end naps f1 are inclined accordingly. A bottomsection I! is attached by a fold line 20 to the lower edge of the backpanel II, and to the outer edge of this section is attached a tuck-inflap 2|. Tuckin flaps 22 and 23 are attached to the lower ends of therespective sections l2 and H.

The opening 1 in the top portion of the front panel In is formed byslitting the panel crosswise at 22 and removing a central portion abovesaid slit short of both ends thereof, thus providing opposing endtongues 24 that are foldable inwardly within the container compartments5 and outwardly along the partition 3 when the blank is folded. Eachtongue 24 has an inner narrow section a of a width corresponding to thethickness of the compartment 5 and also has a free end section 2)corresponding in width to that of the space between the correspondingend of the compartment 5 and the adjacent end of the container. It isthus apparentthat the horizontal length of the crayon holding space 5 isdependent on the length of the slit 22 and the length of the section 12.Therefore, if it is desired to provide a container with a greater orless length of crayon-holding space 5, this can be easily done byvarying the length of the slit 22 in the blank and also the length ofthe sections b of the tuckin flaps 24.

In forming the container body, it is preferable to first place the panel14 over the back panel I I to be spaced therefrom by the end sections l5and I8 folded at right angles thereto so as to form the compartment 4.After the flaps 24 have been folded inwardly, the front panel 10 isfolded over the panel It in spaced parallel relation thereto with thesection l2 serving as an end member against which the end flaps l8flatwise abut, the sections b of the flaps 24 bearing fiat against thepartition panel 3 and the end flap I'l lapping the end section l5 andsealed thereto by an adhesive 25 applied to the surface of flap IT. Theflaps 22 and 23 are then turned inwardly under the bottom edge of thecontainer, and the flap i9 is turned under the lower open bottom of thebody member with its flap 2| tucked in. It is apparent that the endsections I5 and I8 at the ends of the partition panel l4 serve toproperly space such panel from the back :panel ll and that the sectionsa. of the turned-in flaps 24 serve to firmly space the front panel Infrom the partition panel 3 and also to define the horizontal width ofthe crayon receiving space 5.

The cover 2, which telescopes over the body member I of the containerand is of substantially the same vertical depth as the body member, isdivided substantially midway into upper and lower sections 0 and dthatare hinged together along a rear meeting edge thereof as at e. Thispermits the top section 0 to be swung back to claim as new, and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, 18:

1. A container body for crayons and color cards or the like made from asingle-piece blank comprising a back panel, a front panel and apartition panel at opposite ends of the back panel,

end sections foldably connecting the front and partition panels to theback panel with the partition panel connection one-half the width of thecontainer body, end flaps on the free ends of said front and partitionpanels, with the partition panel flap one-half the width of the otherand of the container body, said front and partition panels being foldedover the back panel in spaced parallel relation to each other and to theback panel with the section and flap at the ends of the partition panelspacing it from the back panel and with the section and flap at the endsof the front panel spacing it from both the back and the partitionpanel, and with the flap of the front panel lapping the outer side ofthe end section of the partition panel and fixed thereto, and bottomtuck-in flaps for closing the lower ends of the container body.

2. An arrangement as called for in claim 1, together with the provisionin the front panel of an opening extending downwardly from its top edgeand having foldable side wall flaps turned rearwardly and outwardly inthe space between the front and partition panels and along the latter tocooperate with the partition and front panels to form a crayon storagespace.

STANLEY H. DAVIS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,996,232 Darragh Apr. 2, 19352,387,790 Williamson Oct. 30, 1945

